Request for percentage based gear

[Lamentor]

Title is pretty straight forward.

Examples. Have a piece of gear, say a body piece that would specify something along the lines of "Attack Magic Damage +7%" or "Weapon Skill Damage +7%" as an example.

You could even go as far as having a piece of gear say something like "Intelligence +2%." Either way I think it creates a lot of options.

The whole reason seems kind of obvious. Having "Attack Magic Potency +7" doesn't drastically increase damage on attack magic spells. However, if it were to say "Attack Magic Damage +7%," then we could actually see that 7% boost. This would work toward the efforts of people complaining that gear does nothing.

So, you couldn't say gear does nothing anymore! You can say it does a percentage more, and the numbers be justified.

[elreed]

or simply increase the numbers of every piece

[Jinko]

Yea agreed percentages would probably be a better way to convey information in general at least for comparing gear.

There is nothing to stop having both though, for example percentage next to the stat in brackets.

Right now it displays the gear stat and the difference in brackets (just change that difference to a percentage)

[Prox]

Haste % + gear please! Speed belt, Byakko's Haidate etc...

[Reinheart]

Haste % + gear please! Speed belt, Byakko's Haidate etc...

They said no to this long time ago already, the developer saw that in FFXI as a huge mistake in decision and even if they do implement it they said they are going to make sure they wont make the same mistake again.

[Prox]

They said no to this long time ago already, the developer saw that in FFXI as a huge mistake in decision and even if they do implement it they said they are going to make sure they wont make the same mistake again.

Wow really? I loved haste build in XI when it came to melee and especially with Utsusemi. They were high valued items in XI.

[Jinko]

Wow really? I loved haste build in XI when it came to melee and especially with Utsusemi. They were high valued items in XI.

And game breaking as well, depending on which side of the fence you were standing.

[Elexia]

Wow really? I loved haste build in XI when it came to melee and especially with Utsusemi. They were high valued items in XI.

Yeah I loved getting haste to the point where my Scythe was swinging almost at 1 hand speed Haste builds were great, the only problem was because haste was great to have people charged ridiculous amounts of gil for even 1% haste (Blitz Ring) when it didn't need to be so expensive lol.

Funny enough, they didn't want haste here because it was a 'mistake in xi', but in xiv the stats are so awkwardly done that slow doesn't even really affect you, let alone getting a real boost from large stat increases through materia atm.

[TheVedis]

HQ used to be % based and look where it got us...


in the end, % based or +stat based its all the same, one being higher % then another is the exact same as one being higher +stat then another

[Molly_Millions]

It's the same data presented differently. In the end we would gain nothing.